San Diego Fleet

Alliance of American Football – Ready or Not is HERE!

Here comes SPRING football! Ready or not, we have the first of two springs football leagues about to begin. The first league is the Alliance of American Football (AAF) league starting play this February, a week after the National Football League’s Super Bowl LIII game. The second league is the reboot of the 2001 XFL league, starting in 2020 (more on this league later). The co-founders’ Charlie Ebersol and Bill Polian objectives is to create a league to attract football talent from among the wealth of high level players who have fail to be on a NFL team.

San Diego Fleet Team History

The San Diego Fleet is a professional American football team based in San Diego, California and are charter members of the Alliance of American Football. The Fleet were the 6th of 8 teams announced for the new league, which is set to play in February 2019.

The team colors will be unique to professional sports — battleship gray, yellow and silver gray. They were chosen to represent the anthracite grey of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet, the battleship gray of the ships, and “sun yellow of San Diego’s endless sunshine,” according to Fitz Ollison, the Alliance of American Football’s vice president – football communications.

Established2019

CitySan Diego

League History2019 – Present / Alliance of American Football

Team History2019 – Present / San Diego Fleet

NicknameFleet – Fleet pays homage to San Diego’s naval community and players will wear yellow, representative of the city’s sunny weather, and the gray of Navy ships.